Dr. Josh Keyes: Why do you get dibs on being the hero? Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Because it's my damn ship. Dr. Conrad Zimsky: Oh that makes perfect sense. Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Look, for twenty years I've done nothing but 'Virgil.' Twenty years. 'Virgil' belongs to me, and I will not let her fail. I will not. Now, if you want to know what's worth dying for: this ship. Building it instead of imagining it. If 'Virgil' needs more blood, it will be my blood.

Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: [after listening to Zimsky record his book ideas into a portable microphone] Are you going to be doing that Carl Sagan narration all the way down to the core?

Dr. Josh Keyes: So, we hotwire the nukes, as one does. We seed them through the core at locations that have to be accurate to the inch. We detonate them in a sequence that has to be accurate to the millisecond. Then we outrun the biggest nuclear shockwave in history. Dr. Conrad Zimsky: Right. Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Yeah. Dr. Josh Keyes: I mean, that should be fairly simple.